Émile

American

[ey-meel] / eɪˈmil /

noun

a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education.

Émile Cultural

A work on education by Jean Jacques Rousseau, describing how a fictional boy, Émile, should be brought up. The book had an enormous influence on education during the age of romanticism and afterward.

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Having studied philosophy at Sogang University in Seoul, the soft-spoken filmmaker is also known as a great lover of literature, especially Emile Zola and Philip Roth.

From Barron's

In 1887 German-American inventor Emile Berliner invented the flat shellac disk, quickly saw its advantage for mass production, and patented a device to play them, the gramophone, that same year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Holding on at 1-0, the veteran Scotland international somehow kept Emile Acquah's header from ripping away two precious points.

From BBC

According to Burkina Faso's Interior Minister Emile Zerbo, the ban is part of plans to "rebuild the state" after what he said were "numerous abuses" in the country's multiparty system.

From BBC

Old allegiance, old history, shared blood, old tribes, old paper—Magna Carta, Émile Zola.

From The Wall Street Journal

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